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Steel Glossary
A-E F-J K-O P-T U-Z
Steel Glossary
Index
A
Agglomerating Processes
Aging
AISI (American Iron and Steel
Institute)
Alloying Element
Alloy Steel
Aluminum Killed Steel (Special
Killed)
Annealing
Apparent Supply
Argon-Oxygen Decarburization
(AOD)
Attrition
Austenitic
Auto Stamping Plant
Automatic Gauge Control
B
Baghouse
Bake Hardenable Steel
Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)
Bar Turning
Bars
Bending
Billet
Black Plate
Blast Furnace
Blanking
Bloom
Breakout
Brownfield Expansion
Burr
Busheling
Butt-Weld Pipe
C
Camber
Camber Tolerances
Capacity
Carbon Steel
Casting
Castrip
Charge
Chemistries
Chromium (Cr)
Cladding
Coating
Coils
Coke
Coke Oven Battery
Cold Reduction
Cold-Rolled Strip (Sheet)
Cold Working (Rolling)
Consumption
Continuous Casting
Contract Sales
Conversion Cost
Converter/Processor
COREX®
Corrosion
Culvert Pipe
Cut-to-Length
D
Deburring
Deep Drawing Applications
Defined Benefit Retirement Plan
Defined Contribution Retirement
Plan
Descaling
Desulfurization
Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)
Drawn-Over-Mandrel (DOM)
Drill Pipe
Ductility
Dumping
Dumping Margin
Duplex
E
Edge Rolling (Edge
Conditioning)
Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
Electric Resistance Welded
(ERW) Pipe
Electrical Steel
Electrolytic Galvanized
Electrolytic Tin Coated Sheets
(ETCS)
Electrolytic Tin Plate (ETP)
Electropolishing
Exotic Alloys
Extrusion
F
Fabricate
Fabricator
FAS 106
FAS 109
Feedstock
Ferritic
Ferrochrome
Ferrous
Finmet
Finish
Finishing Facilities
Finishing Stand
Flat-Rolled Steel
Flux
FOB Pricing
Freight Equalization
Forging
Full Hard Cold Rolled
Full Hard Temper
Forming
G
Galfan
Galvaneal Coating
Galvanize Coatings
Galvanized Steel
Galvalume®
Galvannealed
Gauge
GigaJoule
Grinding
Greenfield Facility
H
Hafnium
Hardening
Hardness
Heat Treatment
Heavy Structural Shapes
High-Carbon Steel
High Strength Low Alloy (HSLA)
Hot Band (Hot-Rolled Steel)
Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI)
Hot End
Hot Metal
Hot Mill
Hot Roll
Hot-Strip Mill
HYL I, HYL
Hydrate
Hydroforming
I
I-Beams
Import Administration
Ingot
Inmetco
Integrated Mills
Interstitial Free Steel
Iron Carbide
Iron Ore
L
Ladle
Ladle Metallurgy Furnace (LMF)
Lance
Lead-Time
Legacy Costs
Leveling
Life Cycle Costing
Light-Gauge Steel
Line Pipe
London Metal Exchange (LME)
Long Products
Low-Carbon Steel
M
M sections (Bantam Beams™,
Junior Beams™)
Machining
Magnesium
Man-Hours per Ton (M-H/T)
Martensitic
Matte Finish
Mechanical Properties
Merchant Bar
Metric Ton (mt)
Mini-Mills
Molybdenum (Mo)
Months of Inventory
N
Net Operating Loss (NOLs)
Nickel (Ni)
Nickel-Based Superalloys
Niobium
No. 1 Heavy Melt
O
Oil Country Tubular Goods
(OCTG)
OPEB Expense
Open Hearth Furnace
Operating Rates
Order Rate
Oscillating
P
Peak Earnings
Pellets
Pickling
Pig Iron
Piling (Sheet Piling)
Pipe
Pipe Threading
Plate
Powder Metals
Precipitation Hardening (PH)
Precision Plate Sawing
Pulverized Coal Injection System
(PCI)
Punching
Q
Q-BOP
Qualification Trials
Quench Hardening
R
Reducing Agent
Refractory Brick
Reinforcing Bar (Rebar)
Reline
Residuals
Reversing Mill
Rod
Roll Force Systems
Screw (Incline Plane)
Hydraulic (Pancake Cylinder)
Rolling Mill
Roughing Stand
Routing
S
Sawing
Scale
Scrap (Ferrous)
Home Scrap
Prompt (Industrial) Scrap
Obsolete Scrap
Scrap Substitute
Scrubber
Seamless Pipe
Secondary Steel
Semi-finished Steel
Sendzimir Mill (Z-Mill)
Service Center
Shape Correcting
Shearing
Sheet Steel
Shredded Scrap
Silicon Electrical Steel
Sintering
Skelp
Skin Milling
Slab
Slag
Slitting
Spangle
Special Bar Quality (SBQ)
Specialty Steel
Specialty Tube
Spot Market
Stainless Steel
Statistical Process Control
(SPC)
Steckel Mill
Steel Intensity
Steel-Intensive Products
Steel Service Center Inventories
Steel Strapping
Strength
Stress Corrosion Cracking
(SCC)
Strip
Structurals
Substrate
Superalloy
Super Stainless Steel
Suspension Agreement
T
Taconite
Tailored Blanks
Tandem Mill
Tantalum
Tap-to-Tap Time
Teeming
Tee Splitting
Temper Mill
Terne
Tin Mill
Tin/Chrome Plating
Tin-Free Steel
Tin Plate
Titanium
Tolerances
Toll Processing
Tool Steels
Ton
Tubing
Tundish
Tungsten Materials
Tunnel Furnace
Twin Milling
U
Unfair Trade Suit
V
Vacuum Degassing
Vacuum Oxygen
Decarburization
(VOD)
W
Walking Beam Furnace
Welding
Wheelabrating, Shotblasting,
and Bead Blasting
Wire
Y
Yield
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